>The People Have Spoken

by Roger Sutton
May 28, 2008 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>. . . and we have changed the order of the Narnia books on the Horn Book website.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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DearReader

>Wow, am I the only person who prefers the chronological order? Guess so.

Posted : Jun 02, 2008 12:04

Ravel

>You are awesome! I hated the new numbering so much I pilfered tag sales for the old editions. I know chronology makes a twisted sort of sense, but The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the hook and the anchor. Twere it not first, I don't know if I would have read the series with the same enthusiasm and wonder. Thanks again for being true to the books.

Posted : May 31, 2008 04:38

rockinlibrarian

>It's neat to read old reviews of what are now classics. "One can imagine that twenty, thirty years from now, grownups will be recalling the Narnia tales with the same nostalgic pleasure many people today feel for the E. Nesbit books." --Prophetic! Hmm, maybe not even prophetic enough-- need to add on a couple decades!

Posted : May 30, 2008 05:48

Anonymous

>Sometimes the mob is right. Besides, we're not advocating Roger burn the books, merely rearrange them appropriately.

Thank you!

Chronological reading is a fine method for a second go round with them, but not for the initial discovery.

Posted : May 30, 2008 02:09

Laura

>Hooray!

Posted : May 29, 2008 09:59

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